Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensitivity to horror of the actor. Colgate Salsbury brings a depth and a strength, mingled with pomposity, to the Secretary of the Interior. Eugene Pell does a praiseworthy, although not convincing job as the Princeton professor who watches the Martians with a philosophical eye from the first flourish to the last wriggle...
Nice that Ike doesn't have to "act" anything. What he appears to be he is. Let acting flourish in the theatrical world where it belongs. Not, Heaven forfend, in the White House...
...ninth inning, with the knowledge of his impending feat running through the crowd of 64,519 like an electric current, Larsen got Carl Furillo on a fly, Roy Campanella on a grounder, and ended with a flourish by striking out pinch hitter Dale Mitchell...
Budding Thoreaus would bloom in Peterborough. In the clear mountain air, the astronomy department would flourish. In secret mountain lairs, organic chemists could make fortunes. And most important of all, the Administration would no longer have to worry about bringing God all the way to Harvard, for Harvard would be bringing itself part...
With a rumble of kettledrums and a flourish of flags, TV moved into the fall season. Curiously, the week's best drama was a 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy. Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner on NBC's experiment-happy Kaiser Aluminum Hour. As Creon, Claude Rains was a fine old despot, and once even squeezed out a real tear. But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan. In the title role of the girl trying...